I wonder if this release might have been pressed forward a bit to squelch some of the talk about Sun losing their will to innovate after Bill Joy left.
Why? There are tons of 1U servers using dual Xeon's and dual Opteron's which consume about 50% more power than the G5. You need to use quite a few fans and have to design your HVAC system correctly to pump out the heat. This is one of the problems I had with the new blade systems, HP's can hold up to 96 Xeon's per rack, powering and cooling all that is tough.
Actually IF they can pull that off it would be DAMN cheap. Typical ratio in IT is one desktop person per 100-250 end users, if they can scale that back to 1/8th as many for an already well run organization then this thing would pay for itself many times over. For instance a typical desktop support professional probably makes between 35-55K/year plus benifits depending on the local market, so removing 7 professionals for those 2,000 users costs $100K but saves around $350K in personell. I really doubt anything can get support needs that low though, people are just dumb/ignorant and will need hand holding.
The answer to why USB, is of course that this is being managed by Intel and USB is Intel's baby. Wrt Firewire Intel has major Not Invented Here syndrome.
It's just logical progression: PCMCIA -> ISA PC Card -> PCI Expresscard -> PCI-Express
This is just the portable form-factor of the next expansion bus standard. As far as a desktop upgrade scheme, that's easy, it's called PCI-Express with edge connectors instead of slotted cards. It works well for SCSI and S-ATA so I don't see why it can't be done for PCI-Ex if Intel et al thought it would sell. Besides in general Intel and company DON'T want to sell you upgrades to your desktop, they want you to buy a new one with the new feature =)
Or, just give people what they want but make it more friendly for the environment. For instance the Union of Concerned Scientists crafted the UCS Guardian which is a Ford Explorer made green. It gets up to 35mpg, is safer than normal SUV's, and the increased cost is minimal (about $2,300 more than the normal Explorer which will be made back two times over the life of the vehicle in gasoline savings).
To make cards any thinner that Type 1 PC-Card's you need to use chip's with special packaging as standard surface mount components on a dual sided PCB just barely fits into a PC Card enclose. For instance most CF or smaller WiFi cards are a radio on chip solution which is generally more expensive than a design based around discrete components (at least initially, if you can get the paramaters right and the process down then ultimatly the single chip solution is probably cheaper). For ram you need to use the highest density chips available which tend to be expensive instead of a small aray of cheaper, less dense chips.
I was just giving something with matching performance, the newer 800TT model recorded a 2.405 0-60 with one of the Road and Track editors at the wheel on a slightly wet track! And it's only slightly more expensive at $177K =)
Hmm, Hennessey Venom 800TT is a CAR that is considerably faster accelerating (0-60 in 2.4) and faster (top speed of 230mph) then that bike. Of course the motorcycle is a bit cheaper (Full package including donor Viper GT-R is $177K). And in an accident I can guarentee you I would MUCH rather be in the Venom than on the bike =)
The Virge used to have it's own driver, can't remember on the Savage, might have been one at the time. This was back during the 3.x days, I think they collapsed a lot of the generic drivers functionality into the SVGALib during the runup to 4.0
The last time a Telstar satelite went out of alignment about 3/4ths of the credit card processing in the US went offline. Many banks and gas stations relay their CC processing through transpoders on one of the Telstar satelites instead of dedicating a phone line on each end of the connection. It looks like T-4 is used by ABC and CBS for network programming. See This for more info.
Yep I owned both a Virge and a Savage 4, both good 2D cards for the money, but their 3D performance was crap, epecially the origional Virge which didn't support all the D3D features. Of course they were bought for linux boxes where their well supported XFree86 drivers were more important than their lack of real 3D performance. Oh yeah and the dirt cheap price had something to do with it too =)
Guess you don't work on embeded systems, networking equipment, or real computers much. All of the above have serial ports as standard diagnostic facilities. I can see trashing the PS/2 and Paralle ports but DB-9 ports don't take up much room and the interface chips cost pennies. Besides I have a board with 8 USB (4xUSB-1.1, 4xUSB-2), 2xFirewire, 1xLPT, 2xSerial, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, 1xEthernet, 5.1 channel audio, 1xAGP, and 6xPCI slots. All in a standard ATX form factor. Yes ISA is dead with the exception of the ISA->PCI bridge for the floppy controller and I won't weap at all, it's an ancient, slow bus. The only possible advantage of ISA is the ease of programming, but most of those projects can be done on a project board connected to a serial or parallel port.
Weight from the ice distorting the mesh and decoating the metal leading to rusting. Aironet went with the smooth dish to allow discharge of snow and rain and recomended the raydome covering for the dish in areas prone to icing.
DON'T buy these if you live in an area that gets frequent icestorms. Aironet looked into them before they were bought by Cisco and up here in fridged Ohio they did not last through too many winters due to icing issues. I'm suprised you've had good luck with them in Canada (guess it depends on where you live, but 90% of the population lives within 100 miles of the southern border right?)
Not using your typical 17dBm card and any real length of connecting cable. Point to point limits for ERP are pretty high. Cisco sells a bundle with a 20dBm bridge and a 21dBi antenna. I believe the limit is either 42 or 45 dB ERP.
Cisco's 21dBi dishes have a 3dB falloff at 12.4 degrees so you don't have to be THAT accurate. For full speed you need to be within about 3-5 degrees, I believe they usually hook up a laptop card and watch a VU like graph to tell when they are at optimal sighting.
According to the Cisco distance calculator you need a pair of ~169' towers to do a 32.7 mile links using their 21Dbi dishes. So no mountains needed, but you WOULD need a flashing light at the top and certain permits as I believe anything over 150' needs to have an FAA clearance so planes don't crash into it =)
One is quota size, this can be set per volume, per user, or per directory. Also perfmon allows you to set the max size of the log file so that may be what to original poster meant.
Since he specifically said he likes the Logitech action I think a better choice would be the MS Internet Keyboard Pro. It's probably a rebranded Logitech (all the MS mice are), and it's got all the keys in the right places. It's both PS/2 and USB as well although some of the special function keys don't work in PS/2 mode.
While I LOVE Netapp's even a used F820 cluster with the kind of storage he needs will be around $80K. That's a serious investment for a small IT department. And a F820 cluster is the minimum configuration I would recomend for that much data as the smaller clusters would be maxed on storage from the get-go.
No, if you just push a critical mass of decaying stuff together you don't get much of a boom. To get a real boom out of the bomb you have to have VERY precise timining and compression characteristics. Otherwise you basically have a compact HE dirty bomb. If all you want is a realitivly large explosion and some nuclear fallout it's easier to get a load of decaying but not capable of critical mass stuff and place it around a large conventional explosive like say a truck full of kerosene and fertilizer.
Yeah one of the top prize winners was research into mRNA techniques to silence cancer. That is cutting edge stuff that is being covered in Science, Nature, and SciAm. Heck I built an Argon electical arc furnace for the production of Buckminsterfullerenes about 8 years ago as part of a senior year independant study in science (btw powering something like this is probably NOT in your schools electric budget, we had to ask a local manufacturer to donate space and electricity for the final product). Building stuff like this is fun but building it is not really science, that part was accomplished by the origional builder, but they are good tools to study some part of science.
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I wonder if this release might have been pressed forward a bit to squelch some of the talk about Sun losing their will to innovate after Bill Joy left.
Why? There are tons of 1U servers using dual Xeon's and dual Opteron's which consume about 50% more power than the G5. You need to use quite a few fans and have to design your HVAC system correctly to pump out the heat. This is one of the problems I had with the new blade systems, HP's can hold up to 96 Xeon's per rack, powering and cooling all that is tough.
Actually IF they can pull that off it would be DAMN cheap. Typical ratio in IT is one desktop person per 100-250 end users, if they can scale that back to 1/8th as many for an already well run organization then this thing would pay for itself many times over. For instance a typical desktop support professional probably makes between 35-55K/year plus benifits depending on the local market, so removing 7 professionals for those 2,000 users costs $100K but saves around $350K in personell. I really doubt anything can get support needs that low though, people are just dumb/ignorant and will need hand holding.
The answer to why USB, is of course that this is being managed by Intel and USB is Intel's baby. Wrt Firewire Intel has major Not Invented Here syndrome.
It's just logical progression:
PCMCIA -> ISA
PC Card -> PCI
Expresscard -> PCI-Express
This is just the portable form-factor of the next expansion bus standard. As far as a desktop upgrade scheme, that's easy, it's called PCI-Express with edge connectors instead of slotted cards. It works well for SCSI and S-ATA so I don't see why it can't be done for PCI-Ex if Intel et al thought it would sell. Besides in general Intel and company DON'T want to sell you upgrades to your desktop, they want you to buy a new one with the new feature =)
Or, just give people what they want but make it more friendly for the environment. For instance the Union of Concerned Scientists crafted the UCS Guardian which is a Ford Explorer made green. It gets up to 35mpg, is safer than normal SUV's, and the increased cost is minimal (about $2,300 more than the normal Explorer which will be made back two times over the life of the vehicle in gasoline savings).
To make cards any thinner that Type 1 PC-Card's you need to use chip's with special packaging as standard surface mount components on a dual sided PCB just barely fits into a PC Card enclose. For instance most CF or smaller WiFi cards are a radio on chip solution which is generally more expensive than a design based around discrete components (at least initially, if you can get the paramaters right and the process down then ultimatly the single chip solution is probably cheaper). For ram you need to use the highest density chips available which tend to be expensive instead of a small aray of cheaper, less dense chips.
Death to SUV-driving, cell-phone-talking soccer moms.
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I was just giving something with matching performance, the newer 800TT model recorded a 2.405 0-60 with one of the Road and Track editors at the wheel on a slightly wet track! And it's only slightly more expensive at $177K =)
Hmm, Hennessey Venom 800TT is a CAR that is considerably faster accelerating (0-60 in 2.4) and faster (top speed of 230mph) then that bike. Of course the motorcycle is a bit cheaper (Full package including donor Viper GT-R is $177K). And in an accident I can guarentee you I would MUCH rather be in the Venom than on the bike =)
Or for only $150K you could get a Hennessey Venom 600 which can do 0-60 in 3.7 and has a top speed of 205mph.
The Virge used to have it's own driver, can't remember on the Savage, might have been one at the time. This was back during the 3.x days, I think they collapsed a lot of the generic drivers functionality into the SVGALib during the runup to 4.0
The last time a Telstar satelite went out of alignment about 3/4ths of the credit card processing in the US went offline. Many banks and gas stations relay their CC processing through transpoders on one of the Telstar satelites instead of dedicating a phone line on each end of the connection. It looks like T-4 is used by ABC and CBS for network programming. See This for more info.
Yep I owned both a Virge and a Savage 4, both good 2D cards for the money, but their 3D performance was crap, epecially the origional Virge which didn't support all the D3D features. Of course they were bought for linux boxes where their well supported XFree86 drivers were more important than their lack of real 3D performance. Oh yeah and the dirt cheap price had something to do with it too =)
Guess you don't work on embeded systems, networking equipment, or real computers much. All of the above have serial ports as standard diagnostic facilities. I can see trashing the PS/2 and Paralle ports but DB-9 ports don't take up much room and the interface chips cost pennies. Besides I have a board with 8 USB (4xUSB-1.1, 4xUSB-2), 2xFirewire, 1xLPT, 2xSerial, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, 1xEthernet, 5.1 channel audio, 1xAGP, and 6xPCI slots. All in a standard ATX form factor. Yes ISA is dead with the exception of the ISA->PCI bridge for the floppy controller and I won't weap at all, it's an ancient, slow bus. The only possible advantage of ISA is the ease of programming, but most of those projects can be done on a project board connected to a serial or parallel port.
Weight from the ice distorting the mesh and decoating the metal leading to rusting. Aironet went with the smooth dish to allow discharge of snow and rain and recomended the raydome covering for the dish in areas prone to icing.
DON'T buy these if you live in an area that gets frequent icestorms. Aironet looked into them before they were bought by Cisco and up here in fridged Ohio they did not last through too many winters due to icing issues. I'm suprised you've had good luck with them in Canada (guess it depends on where you live, but 90% of the population lives within 100 miles of the southern border right?)
Not using your typical 17dBm card and any real length of connecting cable. Point to point limits for ERP are pretty high. Cisco sells a bundle with a 20dBm bridge and a 21dBi antenna. I believe the limit is either 42 or 45 dB ERP.
Cisco's 21dBi dishes have a 3dB falloff at 12.4 degrees so you don't have to be THAT accurate. For full speed you need to be within about 3-5 degrees, I believe they usually hook up a laptop card and watch a VU like graph to tell when they are at optimal sighting.
According to the Cisco distance calculator you need a pair of ~169' towers to do a 32.7 mile links using their 21Dbi dishes. So no mountains needed, but you WOULD need a flashing light at the top and certain permits as I believe anything over 150' needs to have an FAA clearance so planes don't crash into it =)
One is quota size, this can be set per volume, per user, or per directory. Also perfmon allows you to set the max size of the log file so that may be what to original poster meant.
Since he specifically said he likes the Logitech action I think a better choice would be the MS Internet Keyboard Pro. It's probably a rebranded Logitech (all the MS mice are), and it's got all the keys in the right places. It's both PS/2 and USB as well although some of the special function keys don't work in PS/2 mode.
While I LOVE Netapp's even a used F820 cluster with the kind of storage he needs will be around $80K. That's a serious investment for a small IT department. And a F820 cluster is the minimum configuration I would recomend for that much data as the smaller clusters would be maxed on storage from the get-go.
No, if you just push a critical mass of decaying stuff together you don't get much of a boom. To get a real boom out of the bomb you have to have VERY precise timining and compression characteristics. Otherwise you basically have a compact HE dirty bomb. If all you want is a realitivly large explosion and some nuclear fallout it's easier to get a load of decaying but not capable of critical mass stuff and place it around a large conventional explosive like say a truck full of kerosene and fertilizer.
Yeah one of the top prize winners was research into mRNA techniques to silence cancer. That is cutting edge stuff that is being covered in Science, Nature, and SciAm. Heck I built an Argon electical arc furnace for the production of Buckminsterfullerenes about 8 years ago as part of a senior year independant study in science (btw powering something like this is probably NOT in your schools electric budget, we had to ask a local manufacturer to donate space and electricity for the final product). Building stuff like this is fun but building it is not really science, that part was accomplished by the origional builder, but they are good tools to study some part of science.